"New York City for fifteen years. Demme won the Academy Award for ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991)—one of only three films to win all the major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress). Inspired by his friend Juan Suárez Botas's illness with AIDS and fueled by his own moral convictions, Demme then used his influence to make ""Philadelphia"" (1993), one of the first major films to address the AIDS crisis and which garnered star Tom Hanks his first Best Actor Oscar. He also co-directed (with his nephew Ted) the music video for Bruce Springsteen's"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most Nominations: ""Cimarron"" (RKO Pictures) - 7 Major Awards Most Awards: ""Cimarron"" - 3 (Best Picture; Best Adaptation and Best Art Direction) ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador"
"won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional seven, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director for Ridley Scott. It was the first movie to win Best Picture without winning either a directing or screenwriting award since ""All the King's Men"" at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950. In 2003, ""Chicago"" became another Best Picture winner which didn't win an Academy Award in either of these two major categories. Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the"
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"tie for Best Actor, as well as the last ceremony to date in which no film won more than two Oscars. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following seven films received multiple nominations: The following two films received multiple awards: 5th Academy Awards The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"5th Academy Awards The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards. Walt Disney created a special animated short film just for the banquet, ""Parade of the Award Nominees"". ""Grand Hotel"" became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else. It was the last film to win"
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"
"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"Best Picture nominations for ""Milk"" and ""Silver Linings Playbook"". ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes, won a total of five Oscars, as well as the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the PGA's Stanley Kramer Award. ""Silver Linings Playbook"", written and directed by David O. Russell, was nominated for eight Oscars. It was the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four"
"Aviator"" became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations, nominated in 11 categories including Best Picture. The film also garnered nominations in nearly all of the other major categories, including a fifth Best Director nomination for Scorsese, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cate Blanchett), and Alan Alda for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Despite having a leading tally, the film ended up with only five Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography. Scorsese lost again, this"
"during the awards ceremony on March 27, 1995. For only the second time in Oscar history, three of the four acting winners were previous winners. The 11th ceremony held in 1939 previously accomplished this feat. Best Actor winner Tom Hanks became the fifth performer to win consecutive acting Oscars and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category since Spencer Tracy won for his performances in ""Captains Courageous"" and ""Boys Town"". He also was the sixth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Supporting Actress winner Dianne Wiest became the first person to win two acting Oscars for"
"It would be short-lived, however, as ""Ben-Hur"" broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year. ""Gigi"" was the last film until ""The Last Emperor"" (1987) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time, winning all nine of its nominations, a record that would be tied by ""The Last Emperor"". This record was broken in 2003 when """" won all 11 of its nominations. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier. Niven won Best Actor"
"Pond"", ""Atlantic City"" and ""Reds"". However, none of them won the Best Picture prize, losing to ""Chariots of Fire"". This also marked the first year that the award for Best Makeup was presented; the winner was Rick Baker for his work on ""An American Werewolf in London"". This was the last year until the 2005 Oscars where all five Best Picture nominations were also nominated for Best Director. ""Reds"" was the last film to gain nominations in all four acting categories until ""Silver Linings Playbook"" matched that feat at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony in 2013. Facilitated in part by"
"by Vanessa Redgrave. ""The Turning Point"" set the record for the most nominations without a win (11), previously held by ""Peyton Place"" and ""The Little Foxes"", which each had 9 nominations with no wins. This record, later tied by ""The Color Purple"", still stands . ""Annie Hall"" was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until ""The Departed"" 29 years later in 2006. Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars, following Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn. For the only time to date, both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won"
"their advanced ages at the time (77, 76, 74 and a ""young"" 56), this is also the most recent ceremony (as of the 2017 presentation of the 89th Academy Awards) for which the four acting award winners are all now deceased – though two of the four did live into their late 90s. ""Chariots of Fire"" became the last film to win Best Picture and not win for directing until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" in 1990. Similar to 1976 and 1977, these Oscars were scheduled directly opposite the NCAA basketball championship game, which this year was broadcast on CBS. Beginning in"
"of the Academy, and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. ""Gladiator"" received the most nominations with twelve. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 2001. ""Gladiator"" became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since 1949's ""All the King's Men"". Best Director winner Steven Soderbergh, who received nominations for both ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" (for which he won the award), was the third person to receive double directing nominations in the same year. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became the third film nominated"
"awards ceremony on February 29, 2004. With eleven awards, ""The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic"" as the most awarded films in Oscar history. Moreover, its clean sweep of its eleven nominations surpassed ""Gigi"" and ""The Last Emperor""'s nine awards for the largest sweep for a single film in Oscar history. The film was also the tenth film to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Best Director nominee Sofia Coppola became the first American woman and third woman overall to be nominated in that category. By virtue of her father, Francis"
"for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine. ""The Last Emperor"" received the most nominations with nine total; ""Broadcast News"" came in second with seven. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988. ""The Last Emperor"" became the second film after 1958's ""Gigi"" to earn nine Oscar nominations and win all of them. For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born"
"the film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and eclipsed ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The Sound of Music soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award and is the longest-running ""Billboard Magazine"" Top 10 album in history at 109 weeks. Returning to television, Cartwright played Penny Robinson in the TV series ""Lost in Space"" (1965–68). She made appearances on several TV shows, including ""My Three Sons"", ""Adam-12"", and ""The Love Boat"". She was also cast in the television movies ""Scout's Honor"""
"""Big Five"" major categories for picture, directing, lead acting performances, and screenwriting. The other two films to achieve this feat were 1934's ""It Happened One Night"" and 1975's ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". ""Beauty and the Beast"" became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the eleventh person to win the aforementioned category twice and at the age of 28, became only the second person after Luise Rainer to win two Academy Awards before the age of 30. ""Boyz n the Hood""'s John Singleton became the first African-American to be"
"1998. With eleven awards, ""Titanic"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's ""The Sound of Music"". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in ""As Good as It Gets"", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in"
"United States. The nominees for the 77th Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2005 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and actor Adrien Brody. ""The Aviator"" received the most nominations with eleven; ""Finding Neverland"" and ""Million Dollar Baby"" tied for second with seven nominations each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 27, 2005. At age 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest winner for Best Director in Oscar history. With his latest unsuccessful nomination for directing ""The Aviator"", nominee Martin Scorsese joined Robert Altman, Clarence Brown,"
"history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was Ingmar Bergman, whose film ""The Silence"" won the Best Film award at the first 1st Guldbagge Awards. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, ""The Here After"" at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015). The first woman who won the award for Best Director was Marianne Ahrne, for the film ""Near and Far Away"" (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for"
"did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. ""Cabaret"", Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner ""The Godfather"" received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress. This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony. Winners are listed first in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations."
"category for a performance in a film directed by Woody Allen. Best Adapted Screenplay winner Emma Thompson was the first person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting. She had previously won Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 film ""Howards End"". This was the first year since the 42nd Academy Awards—and last to date—that none of the acting winners appeared in Best Picture nominees. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals, listed in"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included ""Glory"" with three awards, ""Born on the Fourth of July"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and ""My Left Foot"" with two, and ""The Abyss"", ""Balance"", ""Batman"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", """", ""Dead Poets Society"", ""Henry V"", ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", ""The Johnstown Flood"", and ""Work Experience"""
"boxing drama won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Hilary Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman). Eastwood received a nomination for Best Actor, and the trio was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Eastwood also received a Grammy nomination for composing the film's score. After four years away from acting, Eastwood ended his ""self-imposed acting hiatus"" with ""Gran Torino"". Eastwood directed, starred, held a producer role, and co-wrote the theme song for the film. The film grossed close to $30 million during its wide release"
"in this category that remains unmatched to this day. For the first time since the introduction of Supporting Actor and Actress awards in 1936, Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting Oscars went to six different films. This has happened only three times since, at the 29th Academy Awards for 1956, the 78th for 2005, and the 85th for 2012. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Among the 2,800 in attendance at the Pantages Theatre were: The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was the first to be broadcast on television: The telecast was prompted by the need to"
"history of the Academy Awards, behind William Wyler, and the second most nominated screenwriter, behind Woody Allen. Wilder won a total of six Oscars: Best Director for ""The Lost Weekend"" and ""The Apartment"", Best Screenplay for ""The Lost Weekend"", ""Sunset Boulevard"", and ""The Apartment"", and Best Picture for ""The Apartment"". In addition, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1988. Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (; ; born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most"
"categories]], ""Sunset Boulevard"" is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being ""[[My Man Godfrey]]"" (1936) and ""[[American Hustle]]"" (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by ""[[All About Eve]]"", which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or [[Bette Davis]] for ""All About Eve"" and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer [[Judy Holliday]] for ""[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]""""."" Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively"
"Oscars, ""Spotlight"" was the first film since 1952's ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" to win Best Picture with only one other award. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the third individual to win two consecutive Oscars for Best Director. By virtue of his previous nomination for his portrayal of the titular character in 1976's ""Rocky"", Best Supporting Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone was the sixth person to be nominated for playing the same role in two different films. At the age of 87, Ennio Morricone was believed to be the oldest competitive winner in Oscar history. Having previously won for ""Gravity"" and ""Birdman"","